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plotty slash recs

OK, continuing the gen meta: one reason I prefer gen and am grumpied by the ever-increasing amount of slash is that I want more from my story than most slash stories give me. I have a lot of least favorite kind of stories, but one of them is the story in which characters have issues that are caused/summed up by the fact that they are not fucking, and then there is a lot of YEARNING and FEELINGS, and then there is fucking and everyone is happy. Too often, the answer to the question, "why didn't they just get to the fucking earlier?" is "because then we couldn't have the YEARNING and FEELINGS."

So give me some recs of slash that doesn't do that! Plotty slash, in particular.

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Hmm, I tend to either write gen or feelings :D but I might have some stories that meet this? Maybe? I don't usually bookmark stories I've read, so I can't do much in the way of recs outside my own work.

Seriously, I looked at the slash I'd written in the fandoms I know we share and it was full of feelings. I think you'd probably rather gnaw your own arm off than read "Finding Hozho" or my World's Finest Tim/Kon series. And I understand, really.

Te and I had this running gag for a long time that she was not allowed to try to write stories for me, because she would start with the best intentions and it would invariably turn into Tim implanting a cybernetic eye on his dong. :) She has done stuff that worked for me, though. Sometimes *really surprisingly.* I actually find a lot of Te's stuff very hard to read and keep oriented, because she is so much about disrupted partial thoughts and emotions. But then she wrote a fic with a car chase, and her style worked AMAZINGLY well for that. So I immediately badgered her. "Write moar car chases! You write awesome car chases!"

Ah, sorry. Didn't realize there was history there. Like I said, I don't read much slash. Most of it is so very obviously written by women who have no clue how men think or (a lot of times) how men's sexuality works.I've never really gotten the appeal of taking canonically straight characters and making them gay. I understand that it does appeal to some folks, but for me it's just, "Meh, why bother?"

Things you should be prepared for (listed because I don't know how familiar you are with Mag7 fandom):

Mag7 runs to a lot of AUs, the most popular being a setting where the guys are ATF agents. This one is an AU where the guys are modern-day bounty hunters based out of Atlanta.

These three stories are a trilogy, and total 300,000 words, more or less. It'll take a while.

Slash in this fandom tends to be protected by age statements, due to one of the series' actors indicating discomfort with the possibility of minors finding the stories. At the archive above, you can just put up with the annoyance (I do), or create an account and use that. The account's free, but I believe it will circumvent the age-stmt thing.

On a personal note - I happen to think these 3 stories could easily be read as original fiction by someone completely unfamiliar with the Magnificent 7 TV series. In fact, if you only know the movie with Yul Brynner, I'd suggest approaching this as original fiction, since the TV series characters are fairly different than the classic movie characters.

frankly, these stories are a favorite re-read of mine, and i can't recommend them enough.

i wouldn't be too sure of that. nothing generates porn so well as UST, and older fandoms have plenty of UST. i suspect they have more PWP porn than newer fandoms, in fact, for the simple fact that older shows dealt with more cultural homophobia when scripting their characters.

i admit i could be wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if i was right. uh, not to sound egotistical or anything!

anyway, if you like the Skip Trace novels, i can make a general recommendation for both Maygra and Charlotte as writers in general. i know Maygra's written in Highlander and i believe The Sentinel, and she's done other things. i'm not sure where she's active now, but she's a true gem, a master at the craft of writing. Charlotte gets similar praise from me, and she also writes in several other fandoms. i don't know if your fandoms and their fandoms are the same, but it's worth a look-see.

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